Clothes-hanger.



E. W, HAWLEY.

"CLOTHES HANGER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1904.

PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 18,1905.

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CLOTHES-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,622, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed July 22, 1904. Serial No. 217.740.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. HAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hangers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has especial reference to clothes-hangers for use by occupants of sleep ing-car berths; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts whereby there is produced a convertible hanger adapted for use in either the lower or upper berth, all as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

1n the said drawings, Figure 1 is a View in elevation of my said device in position to be attached to the curtains closing the lower berth, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of said device folded together for storage or transpor- Referring by numerals to the said drawings,

- semicircular form and then doubled back on itself from each end, as indicated at 2 2, the extreme inner and adjacent ends of the parts 2 2 being bent into transverse loops or eyes 3 3, caught around the said part 1 adjacent to the center.

4 represents a horizontal stay-rod whose ends 5 5 are formed into loops or eyes caught around the lower and outer connecting ends 6 7 of the semicircular parts 1 2 2.

8 is aclamp-rod, one end of which is a loop 9, which is bentaround the connecting end 7, while the other end of said rod 8 is an open loop or hooklO, adapted to engage with the stay-rod 4 adjacent to the connecting end 6, and thus to clamp and secure in place a gar ment hung over the said stay-rod 4:.

Swinging on the wire 1, just outside of the loops 3 3 of the parts 2 2, are the loops or eyes 11 11 of the ends of a wire bent first into an X shape and then extended outwardly to form a double horizontal frame, to the upper part of which frame are rigidly secured (by fixed double clamps 12 12 and by solder, if needed) the safety-pins 13 13, whereby the device may be secured to the curtains in front of a lower berth ona sleeping-car. Between the loops or eyes 3 3 of the ends of the wire 1 2 2 are the loops or eyes 14 14 on the ends of a wire which is doubled and bent to form the hook 15, which when the user of the device has an upper berth is swung up over the curtain-rod, the frame having the safety-pins 13 13 being swung down out of the way, as shown in Fig.

curtain-rod adjacent to the upper berth orpin the said hanger to the curtains if occupying the lower berth, and in either case thus have a convenient hanger for the discarded clothes instead'of placing same in the usual berth-net or backof the angularly-inclined end boards in the berth, which is'not only inconvenient, but not adapted to hold clothing save in a crumpled wad, and when not in use the said device, as shown, may be folded into small compass for the traveling-bag or suitcase. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A clothes-hanger for sleeping-car berths, having a swinging frame with fastening devices for attachment to a curtain for the lower berth, and a swinging hook for engagement with the curtain-rod for the upper berth of a sleeping-car, the said frame and said hook being attached so that either may be moved age or transportation.

2. In combination with a clothes-hanger comprising a doubled-Wire frame Whose lower have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in ends are connected by a stay-rod for holding the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisthe garments, aswinging and folding suspencousin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

sion-frarne pivotally attached to the clothes- EUGENE W. HAVVLEY. 5 holding frame, and safety-pins rigidly secured Witnesses:

to said suspension-frame. H. G. UNDERWOOD,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I GEORGE FELBER. 

